In 2011, Jessica Slice took a strenuous summer hike on the Greek Island of Santorini. She didn't drink enough water and when she returned to her cruise ship, she felt dizzy and nauseated. She thought ...

It has been a couple decades since an automobile accident on a cold winter's night left me with a quadriplegia diagnosis and a lifetime supply of power wheelchairs. I sustained a spinal cord injury ...

In her house in Ypsilanti, Michigan, Barbara Meade said "there are walkers and wheelchairs and oxygen and cannulas all over the place." Meade, 82, has chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, so a ...

Most people over 50 were already adults when the Americans with Disabilities Act took effect in 1992 and transformed the rights of people with physical and mental conditions. Subscribe to our ...

Millions of Americans are priced out of homes and apartments. For people with disabilities, finding an accessible place they can afford can be even more challenging. Judy Woodruff reports on the ...

D isability accommodations in American higher education are skyrocketing. In the past decade, the proportion of colleges with more than 10 percent of students registered as disabled has quintupled, ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. During the 1960s, disability activists fought for the right to live independently, ...